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joining us right now, keith springer, abbigail doolittle, and our own bob posani. keith, let me get your take on the cliff here and on what's to happen in terms of the markets. do you expect the economy to go over the fiscal cliff? what kind of reaction might we see in the market if that were to materialize? >> well, if we saw the market sell off in a big way, i don't think anybody believes we're going to go over the fiscal cliff. there will be some sort of resolution. they'll come up with some tax cuts, some breaks in spending, and probably kick the can down the road on a lot of it. i love the way this market is acting. it's not selling off with all the bad news, all the bickering, all the bad words on each side. you've got to love the way that this market is holding up here. doesn't mean investors need to be carefree, but overall, it looks like the market is setting up with a lot of negative sentiment out there. looks like there's a lot of opportunity for a big run higher once we get some form of resolution. i really believe we're going to get it. >> you think by
joining us right now, keith springer, abbigail doolittle, and our own bob posani. keith, let me get your take on the cliff here and on what's to happen in terms of the markets. do you expect the economy to go over the fiscal cliff? what kind of reaction might we see in the market if that were to materialize? >> well, if we saw the market sell off in a big way, i don't think anybody believes we're going to go over the fiscal cliff. there will be some sort of resolution. they'll come up...
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let's go to bob in california, please, bob. >> caller: boo-yah, jim. >> boo-yah, bob. >> caller: what's wrong with fan in it's down again today after their decent earnings report. is there a possible the new ceo's performance causing a wait and see attitude in spite a spectacular performance in sales and profits? unusual in many retail stocks to see many new store openings and healthy profits going on simultaneously. fran seems to be able to do it. >> i know. you know what? here's what we're going to do with fran, because i read the numbers, like you, i saw -- because i wasn't on the conference call. but i read the numbers. i said better than expected top line, better than expected earnings. how much will the stock be up? and the stock was down. what that means is i owe you an explanation and i will come up with one for fran next week. hope for the best. but when you're dealing with washish, prepare for the worst. pay close attention to the talk shows on sunday and the roundup monday. only washington would listen. here's my call to you. no vacation without legislation. "mad money" will
let's go to bob in california, please, bob. >> caller: boo-yah, jim. >> boo-yah, bob. >> caller: what's wrong with fan in it's down again today after their decent earnings report. is there a possible the new ceo's performance causing a wait and see attitude in spite a spectacular performance in sales and profits? unusual in many retail stocks to see many new store openings and healthy profits going on simultaneously. fran seems to be able to do it. >> i know. you know...
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bob pisani, it makes me crazy. >> things have gone downhill. i'm glad the first message was merry christmas. at least that was pleasant. do you know what the second, third and fourth ones were? i have them! number two is buy the number one diet pill. the next one -- the best stock to buy now. the fourth message -- what's up. the free message was free testosterone supplements. there's the list. >> oh, stop. >> in defense of the texting masses, i think it is brilliant. we're able to talk to each other a lot more than we used to be able to. we can tell people when we're going to be late, when we're going to be early. >> i agree with that! >> it's better than talking! it's communicating. >> it's better than talking? >> i agree with that. but people don't even look up anymore. they're always down like this. >> the average 15-year-old sends 195 texts a week. >> just look up every once in a while if you text or you're going to hurt yourself. >>> disney's new fantasyland, the largest expansion in the magic kingdom's 41-year history opens this week with
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bob pisani is here at post 9. i'm sure you're going to talk about market action as it relates to what the speaker said a few moments ago. >> did you watch john boehner the speaker of the house? normally coolool and collected. looking a littles by frustrated. two-sentence answers. a little unusual for the speaker of the house and sort of very brusque and basically walked off on the press conference very quickly. good reason to be frustrated. let me give you some of the highlights of what a lot of people are talking about here. forget everything. don't go over the fiscal cliff but pass a simple tax bill. what would it entail? expend the tax cuts to those making under $250,000. increase taxes on dividends and capital gains to 23.6%. number three, know estate tax, payroll tax cut, unemployment benefits extension. basically strip everything out. no delay in sequestration. does this look like it would satisfy wall street? i don't think so. remember two essential points. it's got to be done before the end of the year and
bob pisani is here at post 9. i'm sure you're going to talk about market action as it relates to what the speaker said a few moments ago. >> did you watch john boehner the speaker of the house? normally coolool and collected. looking a littles by frustrated. two-sentence answers. a little unusual for the speaker of the house and sort of very brusque and basically walked off on the press conference very quickly. good reason to be frustrated. let me give you some of the highlights of what a...
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if you remember there was a time when bob toll of toll brothers and eagles fan came on "mad money" during what turned out to be the early part of the housing collapse. he said he saw the light at the end of the tunnel. but it was most like lit light of an on-coming train. those days are gladly behind us. i suspect the toll tells a story that it goes down the fiscal cliff monday. every day is fiscal cliff tuesday, wednesday, thursday. you get the picture. anyway, you should pull the trigger here to buy it here if the fiscal cliff does what i'm afraid of. brown foreman reports wednesday. this is an interesting one. why? because goldman downgraded it to sell. just last night. i've seen this movie. they were wrong last time. they'll be wrong again. i'm going to bet them a bottle of jack daniels that will be the case. in fact i'll bet them a case of jack daniels that will be the case. if they're close, as we told you we like asina. and i would be willing to be a buyer of that niche retailer ahead of this quarter because of some merger gains i think we'll hear about. but again only on news of s
if you remember there was a time when bob toll of toll brothers and eagles fan came on "mad money" during what turned out to be the early part of the housing collapse. he said he saw the light at the end of the tunnel. but it was most like lit light of an on-coming train. those days are gladly behind us. i suspect the toll tells a story that it goes down the fiscal cliff monday. every day is fiscal cliff tuesday, wednesday, thursday. you get the picture. anyway, you should pull the...
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i want to get to bob here with a look at the big moves before we take a break. over to you, bob. >> we hit the one-month high on the dow, maria, led by some of the tech stocks like ibm and intel. apple was the big story. we ended positive, but just barely. apple, $50 lost in the last two days. today, huge volume. 40 million shares. that's twice normal. company telling nbc, brian williams, they'll start building some mac computer lines here in the united states. big interview on that tonight. let's take a look at some of the computer hardware stocks. nice turn around. remember that disaster with dell and hewlett a few weeks ago? they've been moving up in the last several days. look at this move and this turn around. apple to the downside. all the others in the month of december to the up side. how about the airlines? new high for the airline index. jet fuel costs are low. capacity is constrained. i'm hearing booking is returning to normal after sandy, after a hit for them. those stocks up. u.s. airways up. southwest has been on fire recently. finally, the insurer
i want to get to bob here with a look at the big moves before we take a break. over to you, bob. >> we hit the one-month high on the dow, maria, led by some of the tech stocks like ibm and intel. apple was the big story. we ended positive, but just barely. apple, $50 lost in the last two days. today, huge volume. 40 million shares. that's twice normal. company telling nbc, brian williams, they'll start building some mac computer lines here in the united states. big interview on that...
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let us get some with bob pisani. bob, let's step away from our markets for just a second. okay? what is this we hear about the possibility that the italian government could go away? >> it was a problem this morning. mario monty's government has survived the no confidence vote. looks like the italian government is going to survive. you see italian stocks were down throughout the day. the problem about this, the structure of italian politics makes the country ungovernable. brian, there's 12 political parties in the chamber of deputies. that's the lower house. you get coalitions together and they routinely topple the governments. this has been a problem since world war ii. they've got to gig ofigure out better way to govern the country. >>> we've got huge volume today on apple. it will do 40 million shares, probably twice normal. it went positive earlier in the day on that very good news about doing some production of the mac in the u.s. >> they've got too many and maybe we have too few. somewhere in the middle is the answer. bob pisani, thank you. >>> your top stock story today is
let us get some with bob pisani. bob, let's step away from our markets for just a second. okay? what is this we hear about the possibility that the italian government could go away? >> it was a problem this morning. mario monty's government has survived the no confidence vote. looks like the italian government is going to survive. you see italian stocks were down throughout the day. the problem about this, the structure of italian politics makes the country ungovernable. brian, there's 12...
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we did, bob. we did. got it. >>> shares of toll brothers are rising beating estimates helped by a jump in signed contracts and a drop in cancellation rates. every metric in this report came out gangbusters and the ceo cited this upswing in momentum that began in the first quarter of this year. they say next signed contracts increased quarter by quarter. 45%, 51%, 66% and 75%. now that's a case for momentum sustained here. >> the question is auto. obviously tremendous demand. home tremendous demand. can these do well even if we go over the cliff. momentum here was so amazing. we all know if they go over the cliff, payroll tax, you'll see less in your check. this toll brothers, you buy $500,000 houses. people are buying them like they haven't in five years, six years. >> a comment on five weeks into their first quarter, net signed contracts up 34%. for the previous quarter, a quarter over quarter, up 60%. at some point these numbers are going to flatten out, right? >> yes. we had a tremendous contraction in
we did, bob. we did. got it. >>> shares of toll brothers are rising beating estimates helped by a jump in signed contracts and a drop in cancellation rates. every metric in this report came out gangbusters and the ceo cited this upswing in momentum that began in the first quarter of this year. they say next signed contracts increased quarter by quarter. 45%, 51%, 66% and 75%. now that's a case for momentum sustained here. >> the question is auto. obviously tremendous demand. home...
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thank you, bob. let's shift to bonds and dollar with rick santelli at the cme group in chicago. >> before i get to my charts just to weigh in dollar is screaming against the yen again and keep in mind if you have an export economy and you're japanese watching the dollar race up like this, you're pretty happy about it. maybe it helps the export side. now back to the markets. we had personal income and spending this morning. you know what? you want to see income going through the roof. that's not what we have. it was still better off than spending down a couple tenths. there's a lot of households out there that want to tighten up and get fiscally responsible. seems at odds the way the programs work to address slowness in the economy. there it is. you can see we're clearly moving down. 160 continues to be an important level. not a lot of volatility in the treasuries because they're just staying at these relatively low yields all things considered. now, if you look at the next chart, this is very fascina
thank you, bob. let's shift to bonds and dollar with rick santelli at the cme group in chicago. >> before i get to my charts just to weigh in dollar is screaming against the yen again and keep in mind if you have an export economy and you're japanese watching the dollar race up like this, you're pretty happy about it. maybe it helps the export side. now back to the markets. we had personal income and spending this morning. you know what? you want to see income going through the roof....
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thank you, bob pisani. we'll cover apple in-depth later in the hour. >>> it is worth taking another look at citi. trading up almost 6.5% at $36.49. the banking giant slashing 11,000 jobs, taking up to $1 billion in charges. the chief financial officer is speaking right now and kayla tausche is listening in to that conference call. >> city's cfo is just ending his prepared remarks right now at the goldman sachs financial services conference but he mentioned those layoffs right out of the gate. addressing the morning's announcement which he said is straight to the heart of citi's mission which is getting back to the basics of individual banking. among those 11,000 job cuts though, more than half will take place in the consumer banking business abroad. the bank will exit regions like pakistan and paraguay that haven't been profitable. 1,900 jobs will come from its institutional client's group. they'll start to reassess coverage of certain sectors and geographies in that group. it will close offices underutiliz
thank you, bob pisani. we'll cover apple in-depth later in the hour. >>> it is worth taking another look at citi. trading up almost 6.5% at $36.49. the banking giant slashing 11,000 jobs, taking up to $1 billion in charges. the chief financial officer is speaking right now and kayla tausche is listening in to that conference call. >> city's cfo is just ending his prepared remarks right now at the goldman sachs financial services conference but he mentioned those layoffs right out...
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. >> thank you, bob. >> shadow inventory, that's down, copper developing, you can't get the copper. a lot of things happening that are very bullish. let's go to rick santelli. >> gdp like the employers considered a big one. you can see that around 8:30 eastern, you had every so slightly an uptick in rates. we had a rather large division in our second look at quarter gdp. some interesting stories explaining where that came from. the inventory is good and you build it up and -- i would have expected we would have had a much bigger selloff in treasuries. last time we had the initial report on october 26, first look at third quarter gdp, when it was released at 2%. the chart shows we were down close to ten basis points, why? because that was considered somewhat weak, even at 2%. so the argument goes, why did we get such a small reaction on a big upward revision? a, the market may not believe it. b, we might be in a new realm of gdp, it's always a big number when it's released. we're halfway into the fourth quarter. finally, let's look at an intraday chart of the euro versus the dollar.
. >> thank you, bob. >> shadow inventory, that's down, copper developing, you can't get the copper. a lot of things happening that are very bullish. let's go to rick santelli. >> gdp like the employers considered a big one. you can see that around 8:30 eastern, you had every so slightly an uptick in rates. we had a rather large division in our second look at quarter gdp. some interesting stories explaining where that came from. the inventory is good and you build it up and --...
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. >> bob and michelle are here. and my biggest question, if all the companies are pulling the give dends forward, the u.s. government thinks it will be taking in x amount based on what they would normally get for dividends plus whatever the hirer rate is going to be. it will drop substantially, correct? >> you'll get leads and lags in the revenues. a lead into this year, a lag next year. pretty obvious how this works. in terms of tax planning, let hope they know to take account of this. the argument will argue how great this is working and when there's a shortfall, how did that happen. so i hope we don't go that route. but this administration has been very big on these kinds of things, basically distorting what's going on and this current thing about the mandate really bothers me. so i woouldn't -- >> i think the challenge is being forward looking. there's big challenges not just because the challenge in terms of getting all the information, but also if win terms of trying make the budget numbers look good and you n
. >> bob and michelle are here. and my biggest question, if all the companies are pulling the give dends forward, the u.s. government thinks it will be taking in x amount based on what they would normally get for dividends plus whatever the hirer rate is going to be. it will drop substantially, correct? >> you'll get leads and lags in the revenues. a lead into this year, a lag next year. pretty obvious how this works. in terms of tax planning, let hope they know to take account of...
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bob pisani's here with me. once again -- >> the fiscal cliff circus continues. we're going along, it is nice and quiet day. then of course look at the dow jones industrial average. 1,130 or so. speaker boehner, head of the house, said no substantive progress made in talks with the white house. stocks dropped on those comments. there's that drop in the middle of the day. we came off around noon, that's when the democrats started talking. senator charles schumer of new york, among others, saying he was confident a deal could be made by christmas. stocks rose. you get the idea? stocks up, down, whoever says anything in washington. fact remains this is a pretty good market. 2.5 advancing stocks to deep kleining stocks. that's pretty good. look at advances. when you get a market where health care an materials an financials are all up, although fracti fractionally all of them are up, that's a nice advance for markets overall. not so great for retailers. there is serious damage today. kohl's down 10%. you don't see these stocks move 10%. tiffany's missed. that's a big
bob pisani's here with me. once again -- >> the fiscal cliff circus continues. we're going along, it is nice and quiet day. then of course look at the dow jones industrial average. 1,130 or so. speaker boehner, head of the house, said no substantive progress made in talks with the white house. stocks dropped on those comments. there's that drop in the middle of the day. we came off around noon, that's when the democrats started talking. senator charles schumer of new york, among others,...
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thanks, bob. bob pisani. >>> verisign getting a lift today, mary thompson is at hq. >> a turn around for the stock that fell last week. the reason, the government did renew its contract, allowing it to keep its status as the internet registry. the concern was that the government wasn't going to allow for any price increases for verisign. that's why the stock pulled back. in the wake of the number, reassessing the situation, the company on track for good revenue growth and as a result we have seen a turn-around in today's session, up more than 6%. back to you. >> ocekay, thanks mary. >>> fitch is out with its latest ratings on u.s. states. we have a look at which ones face the biggest threat from the fiscal cliff. >>> later, if you own a car but never drive it, you might be able to make some money off it. ashton kutcher and marissa mayer are backing the start up. the ceo of get-around is coming up. gecko (clearing throat) thank you, mr. speaker, uh, members of congress. in celebration of over 75 ye
thanks, bob. bob pisani. >>> verisign getting a lift today, mary thompson is at hq. >> a turn around for the stock that fell last week. the reason, the government did renew its contract, allowing it to keep its status as the internet registry. the concern was that the government wasn't going to allow for any price increases for verisign. that's why the stock pulled back. in the wake of the number, reassessing the situation, the company on track for good revenue growth and as a...
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bob pisani is covering today's wild swings. eamon javers is on the political back-and-forth. bob, start with you. as we saw the market got boehner, then got schumered to the up side as well. what do you think the market wants to hear from these guys? >> two things. very simple. they want a deal within the next -- end of month of december and it has to be substantive. there's two parts . a deal soon and it has to be substantive. boehner came out 11:30 eastern time said no substantive progress is made. that's what happens to the smasht. then the democrats started talking, senator schumer came out and said he was confident a deal would be reached by christmas. the market goes up. that's the deals we're looking for. bottom line is this -- the market believes something is going to happen because it's been holding up extremely well. remember all those concerns about higher taxes on dividend? the dow utilities bottomed several weeks ago. okay, it is not a gigantic move but the slope has been upward. utilities are among market leaders today. all right, fractional but it is a fairly b
bob pisani is covering today's wild swings. eamon javers is on the political back-and-forth. bob, start with you. as we saw the market got boehner, then got schumered to the up side as well. what do you think the market wants to hear from these guys? >> two things. very simple. they want a deal within the next -- end of month of december and it has to be substantive. there's two parts . a deal soon and it has to be substantive. boehner came out 11:30 eastern time said no substantive...
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we're going to get to bob pisani in just a minute. >>> but first we need to get to eamon javers with some breaking headlines from mitch mcconnell on the fiscal cliff. eamon? >> brian, we're getting a trial balloon here just within the past couple of minutes from mitch mcconnell. he's the senate republican leader responding now to the president's proposal of yesterday. mcconnell telling the "wall street journal" just within the past few minutes what he had's like to see are changes to ensitelement programs, he's floating the idea of means testing medicare and social security. that means that the rich would not be able to receive the same level of benefits that the poor would from those programs. that would save some money. he would also like to see some retirement age extension. obviously both very controversial in democratic circles. but mcconnell saying that is the price that republicans are going to demand if they're going to talk about new tax revenue. now speaking of new tax revenue, we just saw president obama in pennsylvania at a campaign style rally touring a toy factory, and
we're going to get to bob pisani in just a minute. >>> but first we need to get to eamon javers with some breaking headlines from mitch mcconnell on the fiscal cliff. eamon? >> brian, we're getting a trial balloon here just within the past couple of minutes from mitch mcconnell. he's the senate republican leader responding now to the president's proposal of yesterday. mcconnell telling the "wall street journal" just within the past few minutes what he had's like to see...
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don't be modest, bob. you found a better way to pack a bowling ball. that was ups. and who called ups? you did, bob. i just asked a question. it takes a long time to pack a bowling ball. the last guy pitched more ball packers. but you... you consulted ups. you found a better way. that's logistics. that's margin. find out what else ups knows. i'll do that. you're on a roll. that's funny. i wasn't being funny, bob. i know. or that printing in color had to cost a fortune. nobody said an all-in-one had to be bulky. or that you had to print from your desk. at least, nobody said it to us. introducing the business smart inkjet all-in-one series from brother. easy to use. it's the ultimate combination of speed, small size, and low-cost printing. nespresso. where i never have to compromise on anything. ♪ where just one touch creates the perfect coffee. where every cappuccino and latte is only made with fresh milk. and where the staff is exceptionally friendly. ♪ nespresso. what else? >>> let's get final thoughts from our guest host. greg fleming. and we've heard, greg, i
don't be modest, bob. you found a better way to pack a bowling ball. that was ups. and who called ups? you did, bob. i just asked a question. it takes a long time to pack a bowling ball. the last guy pitched more ball packers. but you... you consulted ups. you found a better way. that's logistics. that's margin. find out what else ups knows. i'll do that. you're on a roll. that's funny. i wasn't being funny, bob. i know. or that printing in color had to cost a fortune. nobody said an all-in-one...
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. >>> let's check in with bob on that note. hey, bob. >> china. finally something from the leadership. we have been waiting for weeks, months, remember, everyone has been waiting for them to try to find where their desks are and find out where they can live and where they can stay and sit down and get used to the furniture and look around and say what are we going to do with the economy. we've been waiting no comment. we got comment from the party chief who made a speech in beijing and talked about what was going on. he used words like expanding domestic demand. used words like supporting urbanization. this is what everyone wanted to hear. those are buzz words. those are code words for stimulus. that's what the market is reacting to today. 2% move up in china in shanghai and even hong kong stocks. they moved together. this hasn't happened in a long, long time here. the bottom line is we're finally starting to hear from the leadership. they found their offices and things are starting to move and that is certainly very, very good news because now th
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bob in florida, bob? >> caller: hey, big boo-yah to you, cramer. >> right back at ya. >> caller: first thing i want to do is thank you quick for all you do to demystify the market for people. >> that's my goal. thank you. >> caller: i'm guessing i'm not the only senior citizen living on social security that depends on a portfolio of dividend stocks as a supplement. i'd like to get your take on the future of the income stream that took me so long to create. with one stock in particular, windstream. >> i'm worried about windstream. and i read a lot of the analyst reports and they say, listen, you should be worried. when i have everyone telling me to be worried, i'm not someone who whistles past the graveyard. i say ain't worth it. >> sell, sell, sell. >> john in new york, please, john? >> caller: hey, how you doing, jim? i was wondering how you feel about nokia being that they signed on to china mobile. >> everyone's all of a sudden very excited about nokia. it's on a run. i understand a $3 stock can go to
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. >>> bob pisani, how are traders down here investing -- reacting to mr. obama and mr. boehner? >> it depends on what the headlines are. so the president said the clear majority voted for a balanced approach. but there's a lot of debate about what that means. representative boehner i thought was much more into fighting words over there. listen to what he said. increasing the tax rates is the wrong approach to take. he said there was a stalemate in the talks with the white house. look at the dow industrials. we did move down around 25, 30 points as his comments came out. he said we're almost nowhere in the talks. sitting right near the lows for the day. if you look at the overall sectors that are moving today, pretty much balanced on either side. pretty much even on the balance-decline line. worries about higher taxes on dividend paying stocks seem to be -- >> lows for the day but not violent downstrokes here. >> i think the problem is we'll have trouble moving into positive territory at the close. a lot of concerns about headline risks over the weekend. we could be down 10, 15 o
. >>> bob pisani, how are traders down here investing -- reacting to mr. obama and mr. boehner? >> it depends on what the headlines are. so the president said the clear majority voted for a balanced approach. but there's a lot of debate about what that means. representative boehner i thought was much more into fighting words over there. listen to what he said. increasing the tax rates is the wrong approach to take. he said there was a stalemate in the talks with the white house....
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i wasn't being funny, bob. i know. >>> have you noticed that the experts may be pessimistic worrying about the fiscal cliff, but the global stock market may be on a tear? let's look at some of these numbers. this is great stuff. hong kong is up 19%. this is in the past year. german dax up 25%. the french cac up 11%. thailand up 43%. japan up 6%. year to date, the usa is up over 12%. that ain't bad. let's bring in our pal, jim iuor iuorio. you know, jim, it's turning out to be a very good year and it's turning out to be a very good year on a global basis. >> no doubt about it. but let's break it down. japan's stock market has rallied huge because of promise of liquidity injections and doveishness. the same thing can be said for europe and for the u.s. around the globe, everyone's squeezing interest rates and forcing money to seek yield wherever it can. it could have followthrough in japan. europe has run kind of far -- the market has chosen to believe that europe's problems are somewhat behind us. i don't really
i wasn't being funny, bob. i know. >>> have you noticed that the experts may be pessimistic worrying about the fiscal cliff, but the global stock market may be on a tear? let's look at some of these numbers. this is great stuff. hong kong is up 19%. this is in the past year. german dax up 25%. the french cac up 11%. thailand up 43%. japan up 6%. year to date, the usa is up over 12%. that ain't bad. let's bring in our pal, jim iuor iuorio. you know, jim, it's turning out to be a very...
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i think it supports what bob diamond was saying at barclays. there's still more of a story there on what happened. >> we'll come back. see you next time. >> coming up, don't start your trading week without a healthy dose of cramer. but there are some things i've never seen before. this ge jet engine can understand 5,000 data samples per second. which is good for business. because planes use less fuel, spend less time on the ground and more time in the air. suddenly, faraway places don't seem so...far away. ♪ look this isn't my first christmas. these deals all seem great at the time... but later... [ shirt ] merry christmas, everybody! not so much. ho ho ho! this isn't that kind of deal. [ male announcer ] break from the holiday stress. save on ground shipping at fedex office. to provide a better benefits package... oahhh! [ male announcer ] it made a big splash with the employees. [ duck yelling ] [ male announcer ] find out more at... [ duck ] aflac! [ male announcer ] ...forbusiness.com. ♪ ha ha! thor gets great rewards for his small busi
i think it supports what bob diamond was saying at barclays. there's still more of a story there on what happened. >> we'll come back. see you next time. >> coming up, don't start your trading week without a healthy dose of cramer. but there are some things i've never seen before. this ge jet engine can understand 5,000 data samples per second. which is good for business. because planes use less fuel, spend less time on the ground and more time in the air. suddenly, faraway places...
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i don't think that we want to have a movie someday called the road to the weimar republic because bob hope was in the old movies. there's no hope in that new movie and i think this issue really has to be discussed. now i understand there's issues about compromise and everybody has heard that the president and the democrats won the white house. i understand that but the debt ceiling is a serious issue. as nasty as it might be and credit ratings might change based on the dynamics of how this perpetuates itself when we hit the debt ceiling probably in the next eight to nine weeks but truly congress has to have some say-so in this and the people that put those people in congress have huge opinions and finally, i say less m&a on the government side and yes, i'm not talking about mergers and acquisitions, i'm talking about our money addiction. carl? back to you. >> jim, on demint, what does it mean for the party, can he be more powerful outside the senate than inside? >> i think mr. demint is the perfect guy to run the foundation. when we talk tea party there isn't a bona fide leader, it's
i don't think that we want to have a movie someday called the road to the weimar republic because bob hope was in the old movies. there's no hope in that new movie and i think this issue really has to be discussed. now i understand there's issues about compromise and everybody has heard that the president and the democrats won the white house. i understand that but the debt ceiling is a serious issue. as nasty as it might be and credit ratings might change based on the dynamics of how this...
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bob, i don't want to begin with the macromarkets. i want to begin with the retailers. yesterday, the s & p retail index hit a record high. today, not so much. >> i think that is a sign of a little bit bit of concern going on. show what you has been going on. a lot of the big retailers are weak today. comment specifically on gap but noted, for example that kohl's had very high inventory levels and a concern that might make the season more promotional and specifically affect gap. see it down 7%. other names weak as well a lot of retailers down 1 to 2%. show you what the cracks in retail, think cracks in the consumer overall here but we have got short interest increasing. that hasn't happened in a while. the weather's been unseasonably warm. the comps in 2013 a lot tougher because we'd great first quarter of 2012. and the consumer may be a little bit more hesitant. mandy, along the consumer lines, did you see what darden restaurant also to say, quite surprise, they are very good at managing their company and they came out, said they were disappointed by the recent promoti
bob, i don't want to begin with the macromarkets. i want to begin with the retailers. yesterday, the s & p retail index hit a record high. today, not so much. >> i think that is a sign of a little bit bit of concern going on. show what you has been going on. a lot of the big retailers are weak today. comment specifically on gap but noted, for example that kohl's had very high inventory levels and a concern that might make the season more promotional and specifically affect gap. see it...